Bangladesh focusing on human resource development: Nahid

He made the comment when Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific at the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Mark Field called on him at the latter’s
office, an official release said.

Mark Field led a 10-member delegation of the UK.

Nahid sought cooperation of the UK for improving quality of education.
“The United Kingdom is an important development partner of Bangladesh….The
UK is extending supports in different fields of development in Bangladesh,”
he said.

Nahid said Bangladesh has made a significant progress in different
indicators of education including checking drop-out rate and achieving gender
parity as the government has implemented many pragmatic programmes.

The minister said, “At present, 14 percent students are studying technical
education in the country. We are planning to reach 20 percent by 2021 to make
Bangladesh an economically advanced country,” he added.